In the third most expensive spot to live in the UK,council tenants protest against city fitting ‘somewhere only the wealthy can afford to live’
Cambridge residents are taking to the streets on Saturday in a protest to highlight the effect of the housing crisis on the city. Hundreds of people are marching through Cambridge – the third most expensive spot to live in the UK in 2014 – as part of a day of demonstrations organised by Cambridge city council and the local department of trade union Unite.
The demonstration is in response to the government’s proposed changes to social housing in the housing and planning bill, which the Labour-controlled council says will force it to sell off a quarter of its housing stock – around 2000 homes – to fund the controversial extension of right-to-buy to housing association tenants, or impose a 1% prick on social housing rents. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com